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1446 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 73 
much shorter; pedicels in umbellate clusters, 3 to 5 mm. long, 
spreading, densely puberulent, subtended by similarly pubes- | 
cent bracts or bracteoles; calyx olivaceus pubescent on the | 
outside, 3 mm. long, the basal one half united into a broad cup, 
the apical one half divided into 5 strongly recurved teeth, the 
segments rather narrow and glabrate at least on the upper side; 
corolla 5 mm. long, the basal one third united, puberulent on 
the outside, toward the base more or less 5-carinate; lobes 5, 
straight and valvate in the bud state, oblong, obtuse at 
apex, trinerved, tips incurved; stamens 5, alternating with the 
segments and inserted upon the corolla tube 1 mm. from the 
base; filaments slender, inwardly looped, 1.25 mm. long, gla- 
brous or very faintly hairy toward the distal end; anther in- i 
cluded, 2.5mm. long, falsely united about the pistil, linear, abrupt- | 
ly constricted at the apex into a mucronate point, conspicuously i 
bilobed or sagittate at base, basifixed from the inner side, mm- 
trorsely dehiscent; ovary 1 mm. long, glabrous, conically glo- 
bose; style 1.75 mm. long, slender, glabrous, strict, thinnest at 
the base; stigma mitriform, 1 mm. long, much thicker than its 
style; the 5 scales about the basal portion of the ovary free, E 
0.75 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, the truncate apex obscurely den- J 
ticulate, glabrous, dark brown especially toward the base; ovules , 
numerously crowded upon 2 placentae; follicle straight, 15 em. 
long, strict, subterete, 5 mm. thick or thicker, blunt at the base, 
somewhat sharper at apex, the inner marginal side of the 2 
carpels dividing it into 2 cells; seeds numerously arranged along 
a slender and membranous placenta, dull brown, flattened 
and somewhat twisted, 7.5 mm. long, the broadest end toward 
the base of the follicle, glabrous or only finely scaberulous, lin- 
early oblong, gradually tapering toward the distal or coma 
bearing end; hairs umber brown, very fine and numerous, 1.5 
em. long, rotately spreading; kernel flattish, oblong and toward 
the distal end beaked. | 
"Type specimens 12540 and 11719, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, May and September, 4 
1909. 
Climbing in company with other climbers upon medium 
sized trees and forming interlaced spreading masses in humid 
forests at 4250 feet altitude near the junction of Mainit creek "d 
with the Sibulan river on the general route to Baclayan. The 
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